Importance of yin ang yang

[gendao]

Everything we are looking at on our screens right now is ultimately a product of and can be reduced to merely 1s & 0s...

I think Taoism is basically saying the same thing about the binary (dual) nature of Maya.

Maya (Sanskrit माया māyā), in Indian religions, has multiple meanings. Maya, is the principal deity who creates, perpetuates and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe.

I suppose at a higher level, instead of seeing the gross phenomena, one might be able to see the "binary coding" instead. And past that, the void.

[exorcist_1699]

To those who are familiar with German philosophy,when they first look at Taoism , they likely find similarities between Taoism and Hegelian philosophy: the concept wuji as Absolute Spirit, the development of yin and yang into many layers , then into all the things as the dialectic unfolding and embodiment of the Spirit in the world.

 

However, the similarities are superficial for while Westerners use scientific means and logical reasoning to grasp the world , the Chinese follow the Tao (pre-heavenly ) => qi ( yin/yang) => five-element-... way . As there is no impassable gap between things-qi- spirit, the possibility of directly manipulating things by spirit under this " monism" of Qi is possible . Qi makes the seemingly philosophical Taoist system not just something theoretical but realistic , at least as some kind of medical dose in our body , some kind of means of healing that can really cure diseases .